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Fira Sans

Fira Sans is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families. Its regular file holds 2,708 glyphs, 3.9 times the median of the sans serifs (686).

Outlines drawn from the FiraSans-Regular file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Fira Sans	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	750	740
Cap height (top of H)	689	702
x-height (top of x)	527	519
Descender (foot of p)	−213	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.77	0.70
Average lowercase width	508	522
Ink coverage, a–z	42.4%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Fira Sans	Added
Fira Sans Condensed	lowercase narrower by 50	2016
Fira Sans Extra Condensed	lowercase narrower by 86	2016

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Candal, Chiron Hei HK; just above: Reddit Sans Condensed, Schibsted Grotesk; level with: Fira Sans Extra Condensed, Onest

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Livvic, Nunito; just above: Mina, Fredoka; level with: Sawarabi Gothic

Weights and styles

Static files from Thin to Black.

Scripts7 subsets · families sharing each

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,686 Unicode characters are mapped.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, ordinals, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, contextual alternates, stylistic alternates, slashed zero, case-sensitive forms and four stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Asap Sharpshorter x-height, narrower Asapshorter x-height, narrower Vocesshorter x-height, wider ABeeZeetaller x-height, wider Radio Canadashorter x-height, wider National Parkshorter x-height, narrower

Outside the sans serif class

Brawlershorter x-height, wider Noto Serif Todhrishorter x-height, wider PT Serifshorter x-height, narrower

Rank every family against Fira Sans

Same designer

Carrois Apostrophe is credited on 7 other families in the library, from Share (2012) to Fira Mono (2014); the closest of them in x-height and width is Carrois Gothic.